Quotes About Business

Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.

Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

We should redefine the metric for effective lending, viz., prioritise loans to enterprises, which will generate more employment.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more.

For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there, right?

You may not like the way I deliver the truth - you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts - but that's the way I do business.

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

Due to my business commitments, I am faced with time constraints and have not been able to personally spend as much time as I would like on my causes. These efforts are handled by my team of several people.

I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.

We're focused on ourselves and winning our games and handling our business. We'll let the chips fall in place.